Englebert Huff was a Norwegian member of the life guards of William of Orange who later became King William of England, and was the first known member of that old family to come and settle in North America. He came about 1707, and soon after his arrival married Maria (Maritie) Willems, daughter of Mr. Robert Willems and his wife Grase (Greesge) Cerant (which is believed to have been an early way of spelling Cenif or Canniff) who had emigrated from Holland. Maria was born in 1690 at Tarrytown, N. Y.
Englebert Huff died at Fishkill, N.Y. on March 21st 1765 at the ripe old age of 128 years and was buried near the west wall of the Reformed Dutch Church in nearby Hopewell, N.Y. where an imposing monument was erected to his memory.